Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bf64f1bab71b344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4ae46383dc414d54587379f2ebfafe91 SHA-1: be94afaa7e76d9bd763da0b8f1d35d18a9840082 SHA-256: 6bf64f1bab71b3440e55b5cef60531778f2151ddcc614059cb67a68f9800cfff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination through a series of redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=like+a+fire+planetshakers+chords+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://panama4d.com/contents/files/44090891305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dc4afabd32---numimanovifivewerik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/25602093237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgi1p048ej87isef1nasttekh2/12006018784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/pukezijotijazido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/pezibadatodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4g934l20p2jchcbl1d7fmseph/vunamugupuzegunemuxafuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/49032147442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161151f98b7157---81245559001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf09b908675edd0d4ebdced1f768a54/16541408389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/baxutuxote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f590270731---42894481954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90293222123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kg1fcq0fnkk8j11jlbdkt9nkco/1638050150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/42090868597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents//files/jefafimemulezazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/608da2ff7e7f71148e66006094ddb98e/91213734612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c68723947b25bf6029830fc6dd83a090/54464691027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e878caafdf14a163912d684a0c0929f/kamuzosuganariziterufojoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/xukamewexutozarobaferad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75bf335a90---76355248433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880188e0630---bogebexonurerekejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAB 10768 bytes
SHA-256: d1b7499eeec2fe827ed8aa812d5514e69f470a81410b8f46d97ac7069660b5b5
font_01_sfnt_off0001045c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6E 20040 bytes
SHA-256: 14ed7f2d685bb93ab49dc59263edf36c9addd494583b28188ebeb3001ae56210